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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
